Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to "My dear old friend" [David Christie-Murray], [1894] Sept. 7.

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Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to "My dear old friend" [David Christie-Murray], [1894] Sept. 7.

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Offering a great deal of witty advice on how to behave in America: "Wear reasonably conventional clothes, cultivate an intelligently conventional aspect, and do not for your life say anything about the stage, or the latter-day hard luck you have had, or anything else which will not commend itself to a popular sense which, though artistic on one side, is implacably philistine on the other," contrasting scholarly men and newspaper men, and warning him against expressing dissatisfaction with American ways: "The whole country is one vast sounding board, and it vibrates with perilous susceptibility in response to an English accent."

1 item (2 p.) ; 26 cm.

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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